Cash-carrier.



Patentad m 18, I899.

No. 629,2l9.

H C SWEZEY CASH CARRIER. (Applieation mg m. 17, 399.)

0 Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT met.

MOSES C. SlVEZEY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO EMMA E. SWEZEY, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH-GARNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,219, dated July 18, 1899;

Application filed March 17, 1899. Serial No. 709,463. (No model.)

and which said drawings copstitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a top or plan View of a carrier constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view of the same; Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectional view of a two-Wheeled carriage Fig. 4, a broken sectional view illustrating a modified'form of the bearing-head.

My invention relates to an improvement in cash-carriers, and particularly to that class which consists of a frame carrying a wheel or wheels by which the frame is supported on a wire,and more especially to that class in which the wires at the terminals gradually increase in thickness or are provided with coils which graduallyincrease in size and so as to provide a gradual stop for the cars. To regulate the distance which the car shall travel upon the enlarged portion of the wire, a screw-studhas been arranged in the side of the frame and extending inward so as to impinge upon the enlarged portion of the track; butin all cases, and more especially when the enlarged terminals are formed from a coil, the stud wears the track and deranges the coil.

The object of this invention is to provide a car with a bearing-surface slightly below the wheel and between which and the wheel the enlarged portion of the terminals will loe.

rigidly held, so that the movement of the car will be arrested and held against rebonndin g; and it consists in'the construction as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The car will preferably consist of two sides AB, formed. separately and adapted to be riveted together, and may be formed with bearin gs a b at the centerto support asingle wheel C, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4,0r it may be formed at opposite ends with bearings c for jacent to the wheel.

' thesupport of wheels C, as-shown in Fig. 3.

In case only one wheel is employed the opposite ends of the frame will be formed with fingers (Z, forming guides for the wire. The frame will also be formed with a oup-receiving socket D of any approved construction.

' Between the ends of the frame and on one or both sides of the center I provide elastic bearing-headsE, and which, as showninFigs.

2 and 3, may be formed integral with the sides of the frame, which are nsualli cast from malleable iron, which permits casting of these hearings with the frame, it being understood that one bearing is formed in each section, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. Beneath these bearing-heads E the frame is formed with threaded openings to receive set-screws F, by which the heads E are held rigid and by which they may be slightly adjusted. When one wheel is employed, as shown in Figsrl and 2, these heads are arranged on op posite sides and the supporting-arms e thereof extend upward and inward from the base; but when two wheels are employed, as shown in Fig. 3, one head will be arranged adjacent to each wheel and the arms 6 extend upward and outward. The object of providing two hearing-heads is that the car may be checked and held at each terminal.

. Instead of forming thebearing-heads E, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of cast metalthey may be formed from a strip G of sheet metal,

as shown in Fig. 4, and for economy of space may be secured to the frame on one side of i the center by'a screw 9 or otherwise and extend beneath the wheel on to the head of an adjusting-screw I-I, mounted in the frame ad- The sheet-metal strip, however, does not have any spring action, as

it is held rigidly against movement away from wire K by the adj usting-screw H, as are the heads in the construction previously described.

In operation the car moving in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 2, will, asit approaches the terminal, pass on to the enlarged portion J of the wire K, and such enlarged portion coming between one or both of the heads and the wheel will cause it to bind thereon and so check and hold the car, while at the op- :00

posite terminal the heads will coact with the wheel and the enlarged portion of the wire at that terminal in, the same manner in checking and holding the car.

In order to permit the car to ride to a greater or less extent upon the coiled or enlarged portion, the head or heads will be raised or lowered so as to allow more or less space between the upper face of the head and the lower edge of the wheel.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cash-carrier, the combination with a frame and the supporting-wheel therefor, of an elastic bearing-head secured to said frame and extending upward adjacent to the wheel, and an adj Listing-screw directly beneath said head, whereby it is held in a rigid position, substantially as described. 7

2. in a cash-carrier, the combination with a frame and a centrally-arranged supportingwheel, of an elastic bearing-head arranged between the wheel and the outer end of the frame and an ad ju sting-screw mounted in the frame directly below said head, whereby the head is held in a rigid position, substantially as described.

3. In acash-carrier, the combination witha frame, of an elastic bearing formed integral therewith and arranged adjacentto the means for supporting said carrier, and an adj ustingscrew mounted in the carrier directly below said head, whereby the head is held in a rigid position, substantially as described.

4:. In a cash-carrier, the combination with a frame, having a centrally-arranged wheel, and provided at each end with a'notch, of an elastic bearing-head arranged between the wheel and one end of the frame, and an adjusting-screw mounted in the frame directly below said head, and adapted to hold the said head in a rigid position, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Moses 0. SWEZEY.

lVitnesses:

FREDERIC O. EARLE, LILLIAN D. KELsEY. 

